Thursday, August 03, 2006

Where does the time go?

I've barely blogged anything all week, and here it is Thursday night, I work tomorrow, then we're leaving for a weekend in Chicago right after...

Anyway, if you were fortunate (?) enough to catch the post from last weekend that I deleted, you can find the novel I was talking about here, reviewed on the Historical Novels Review Online page - I posted all of these reviews earlier today, after the HNR Online editor sent them to me. The review in question is the one at the very end. Excellent novel overall, despite the aforementioned issues with the lack of a clear plotline until partway through. I read it from an ARC, which was in POD format, though I later discovered (after checking the publisher's website, and double-checking with the author) that the paperback won't be officially released until next February. Until then, you can purchase the e-book version. If you think a novel set in 1926 rural Indiana sounds like it would be boring, think again. I don't know many other novels that convey the Roaring '20s quite so well.

11 comments:

Um, yes, I know the acronym, but I thought that was just a way of printing a paperback? But you say the paperback is due out Feb next year, which confused me and made me wonder if POD had some other meaning. I'm probably just being thick. Is it just that the POD paperback won't be on sale until February for some reason, but they gave you a copy in advance?

That helps, I did figure you knew the acronym but didn't understand the question otherwise :)

No, there's no other meaning. I did read an advance copy, in paperback, which was POD. And the final pb version (which will have an ISBN and price printed on it, unlike the one I read) will also be POD, I assume. In answer to your last question, yes. They're delaying official publication of the pb until next year - to give the distributor more time (something like that).

Yes, true, it took a while for me to pin down what the issue was - with all the activity going on in the novel, it was easy to get distracted. In the beginning, it read like a series of somewhat-but-not-quite-really-related vignettes, but they all tie together nicely later on. Glad you liked it!